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also sorry one thing lfls cannot do is convince me that it's fun or interesting to go to a track meet. it is Monumentally boring. yes even if the boys are hot because the stands are never close enough to see the boys
#my brother (four year age difference) did track & cross country all through high school#and like. i was truly invested in his success but that did not make it fun tow atch#meets are Painfully uninteresting i am sorry to say#rowan chatter#re: lfls#i suppose this does make it more romantic for myungha to go see him run#and for sangwon to follow myungha#but kyunghoonie what are you doing there. youre so nice
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Number 8 from your wrapped !!!
I fucking LOVE Tüsn, because their songs do make sense, but they are also just a lot of free association based kind of stuff at times. Algorithmen is a song I would die to experience live.
#spotify wrapped#emi#beareplies#i have quite a few tüsn things on the lfls playlist and Jetzt und für immer was a great background track for IP this year
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First I have to say that I love lfls! It is such a good fanfic that I have read it now 4 times! It is one of the few fanfics I do read.
I myself have my own ideas of fanfics and original works, but I just never seem to want to write them. I keep double guessing and hating all my moves and what I write that I just erase all the work I did. Other times I have all this free time, but I just avoid writing, yet I am constantly thinking about my ideas I want to write and show others.
Do you like have any help with this? I always get upset at myself when I see others making great things, yet I am over here with nothing because I am too scared or lazy?
Sorry, I just really want to improve better with this and I thought maybe you would know ways to help since you are really good at writing and drawing!
Most writers go through this, honestly. Currently I'm in a patch right now. You aren't alone in that feeling, but rather than let that consume you, try and put that into proving yourself wrong! Spite can be a great motivator.
The unfortunate answer is that you are going to have to sit yourself down and just write through it. It sucks, it's hard, it's not fun. You don't have any momentum and each sentence feels bland and wrong. Getting started writing is like trying to get a very large bolder down a hill, but unfortunately it is wedged onto a flat ledge and you have to put in the work to get it rolling.
But as you keep writing, and keep forming this habit, you gain natural momentum to keep going. Then it'll usually all start clicking into place and be enjoyable.
Next time you have free time, set a timer for ten minutes. You can't do anything but write for that time. You cannot delete more than a few words. The next day, do it again. Expand it to a goal of 500 words per session when you are ready. And then look back at everything you have written- good or not- and keep on going.
OR, for the more adventurous and bold that want to kick start it faster, have you heard of NaNoWriMo? It starts in 6 days and I find the tracking tools and community extremely helpful if you have the time for it.
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I was shocked when I realized I was still missing some of his Dialoge after the fact smh
Leonardo Desk Top Ghost by @venelona-turtle-den
LFLS by @eternalglitch
I’m a very introverted/shut-in person and having this lil Peepaw on my laptop has made me immeasurably happy and left me feeling slightly less lonely, he’s so much fun to interact with and his dialogue is hilarious (unless it’s the angsty stuff, which is absolutely heart wrenching), and he’s also helped me out with little things like remembering to eat or keep track of the time. I highly recommend downloading him if you have Windows! and LFLS is one of my absolute favourite fics, I highly recommend reading it if you have the time, the story is so well written and leaves my heart in tatters every time.
#desktop ghost leo#tmnt#rise of the teenage mutant ninja turtles#teenage mutant ninja turtles#rottmnt#leo rottmnt#rise!leo#rise!leonardo#lfls rottmnt#rise lfls#like father like son rottmnt#like father like son tmnt
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Hey I would earnestly love some DC recommendations! I'm a little out of my depth and I respect the wisdom of a comic shop employee.
I loved the whole Scott Snyder run of Batman, probably my favorite so far. I was recommended the Tynion IV run (by a cute guy at the Vault of Midnight shop in Detroit), liked what Fear State had to say. I recently finished reading the Catwoman (2011-2016) Vol. 5 - Race of Thieves graphic novel (found it in a LFL!), liked the narrative focus on gaslighting. Also, the Penguin is my favorite villain; I love the organized crime stories.
Also also with the utmost platonicism I must inform you that yeah, you are adorable. It makes total sense that you're breaking hearts all over the local comix community.
take my hand and let me lead you into the world off the tracks of main runs
recommendations that i have not personally read but are shop favorites and probably up your alley:
gotham city year one- written by tom king who’s one of the biggest writers in comics right now. story of the crime that sent gotham spiraling into the city of villains it became
catwoman lonely city- beautiful art and story by cliff chiang, gotham without batman has been cleaned up and a “reformed” selina kyle starts picking at the city’s old wounds
personal recommendations:
human target by tom king- very much a crime noir femme fatale whodunnit. a man whose career is being a body double for people in danger of being assassinated has finally taken a hit he can’t survive. 12 issue series, he has 12 days to figure out who killed him and whether or not it was him they were trying to kill
supergirl woman of tomorrow- beautiful beautiful story of supergirl deciding to accompany a girl on her revenge mission to track down and kill the man who killed her father and having to deal with witnessing the destruction he leaves behind on every planet he lands on
dark knights of steel- fun story about the justice league in a high fantasy setting. assassinations, questions about identity, royal politics and betrayals, harley quinn as an actual jester, batman as a knight with lil bat ears on his helmet
batman: one bad day- the riddler- not a FAVORITE per say but an interesting look at the riddler and how one bad day can push someone past the point of return and if batman can bend without breaking when a villain goes off script
stuck with recent releases and popular characters for this one, hopefully a couple of them sounds like something you can dive into
and thank youu 😘
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You wake up to find you are now the owner of Lucasfilm. What's the first thing you would do?
Following the exact parameters laid out in the question by Darth Thunder @XDarthThunderX on Twitter if I woke up to find that I was the owner of Lucasfilm not just in-charge of it under Disney but sole owner of it. The following plan is what I would do if I woke up tomorrow to find that I had somehow acquired Lucasfilm from Disney & become the owner of it:
- KK sacked & removed possibly even barring her from the premises
- Disney Influence Gone (CLEAN HOUSE/EVERYBODY FIRED)
- Meet with all old EU/Legends authors, settle all grievances they have with LFL, set up payment plans for the back royalties of those LFL haven't been paying, & set up methods of payment for all future royalties from there on.
- Studio would close its doors for 14 days until such time when I have a plan in place to move forward which is when I would hold a press conference to announce our new plan going forward. (COMPLETE MEDIA SILENCE)
- Use LFL database of all old EU/Legends content & all Disney-Era content to figure out where I need to start. If no database exists outside of those fan sites such as Wookiepedia I would create a simple spreadsheet for the time being. Later on, I would bring in a team to setup an online database containing everything Star Wars including Disney-Era content for fans of that era of Star Wars likely in conjunction with the creative team with it also serving as their resource as well. (HOLOCRON NETWORK)
- An actual creative team would be created initially to go through the Skywalker saga, all old EU/Legends content outside the 6 films by George Lucas, & all Disney-Era content outside the sequel trilogy to find what works & what doesn't work in order to craft a cohesive narrative to create a new continuity that is a fusion of both. Old EU/Legends are brought in & made officially canon regardless of what it was under GL while Disney-Era content will be meticulously combed through to figure out what elements work & what elements from the Disney EU wouldn't work with Legends so elements such as episodes 7-9 will need to be retconned along with anything else that doesn't work which would be done in the first movie we would make that would use the WBW (World Between Worlds) to destroy the Disney EU to create this new thing going forward. After they finish this the creative team would work from then on to oversee the continuity of the EU moving forward so everything from there would remain canon to this new EU so strict oversight would be necessary to ensure that issues of the old EU such as plot holes & retcons won't occur in the new EU.
- Iron out a proper plan going forward from the initial movie where we do a soft franchise reboot to setup this new canon & everything from there on with a few movies being released over the span of years to keep them special while making a lot of TV shows, games, books, comics, & other stuff which is used to grow our new canon.
- Once my initial 14 days are up I would hold a press conference where I announce our new plan for Star Wars.
- Initially I would be very hands-on with LFL until I get it on the right track & while I do this I will bring on a second-in-command who will deal with the business side of things for me so I can focus on creative.
- Star Wars is for everyone. The Force is not female or male. It's for everyone. (An idea I agree with from Star Wars Theory's plan)
- There will be no more attacks on fans who criticize/dislike anything we do & if an employee is found going after fans for any reason, they will immediately be fired from Lucasfilm. (OUR SUCCESS DEPENDS UPON THE FANS)
- Relaunch fan film festivals/contests to encourage creativity in the fan community & possibly find talented filmmakers out of the fan community that can be given a chance to create for Lucasfilm.
- ALL old content from movies to video games get redone/remastered.
- An anthology series either on film or TV about the Jedi called Tales of the Jedi & while the title was previously used by Filon this won't just be about Ahsoka & Dooku but instead it will span across thousands of years of their entire history with it covering the origins of the Order all the way into the far future into the Legacy Era & beyond through the PoV of various Jedi. (IF ON TV MAY GO MULTIPLE SEASONS)
- An anthology series either on film or TV about the Sith called Tales of the Sith (UNORIGINAL TITLE) which spans across their entire history with it following the PoVs of both the well-known Sith & the obscure Sith that have interesting stories. (IF ON TV MAY GO MULTIPLE SEASONS)
- Since most of the old EU/Legends would be officially canon Mara Jade is too so if everything is canon she's dead while I can find a way to do it I would retcon her death so she's still alive which may change events later on down the road.
- We'd do a Sword of the Jedi trilogy as our sequel where Jaina Solo-Fel & Ben Skywalker would be the main figures with Leia who is either recast if need be or deep faked if I have to, Han, & Luke serving in the mentor role while Jaina & Ben would take over the protagonist roles with their own team including Jagged Fel & possibly a redeemed Vestara Khai.
- Besides that we'd explore the entirety of the Star War galaxy across time even exploring the periods that have yet to be explored & the characters that lived during those time periods.
- Eventually my long-range goal if this is successful would be to branch out with subdivisions in book/comic publishing & game development being setup so we can do everything in house instead of contracting out to comic book publishers & such which could be done but I'd need to be smart about how I will go about this so that it doesn't bankrupt the company.
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LEC RETROSPECTIVE: VITALITY
So yesterday I said I was gonna start posting about the team individually, starting with last place in LEC Summer Regular Split 2023, and that means I'm gonna write first about probably the most chaotic and insane story this year, a team known for their frequent superteams and subsequent collapses.
This is the 1,2,3,4 5th! failed superteam from the french organisation, and considering their track record they really aughta stop trying. After coming into the league, shitting it up with that godawful Hachani roster, having a mildly successful run to worlds in 2018 with Kikis and early Attila, and then blowing up every last successful aspect of their roster in 2020 with the Saken rosters, they've since decided that they're going full money, no thoughts and built a roster of hopefully, high quality.
Winter began with a roster of Photon, a former T1 Challenger player who was probably the 3rd or 4th most exciting prospetive toplaner in LCKCL, Bo, the maligned prodigy booted from his home region for matchfixing allegations, who spent 2022 absolutely running EUW and making montages of the top level LEC players, Perkz, a western GOAT, one of the most storied players in our fair region and fresh coming back from his NA journey, looking (honestly) worse than ever.
Now, this topside was fairly exciting. Perkz was historically known mostly as a carry player on mechanical assassins, like Leblanc, but in his recent years, he was yet to show any real promise in game. Out of game, he's a renowned leader and able to get along with anyone. Bo was a prodigy jungler, undefeated in 2021 until the matchfixing allegations came out and arguably doomed the FPX roster, while Photon was a bit of an unknown quanitity. As a CL player, Thanatos was MUCH MUCH better, and others like DnDn are in LCK now and doing well for themselves, but Photon was on T1 Challengers, which has produced some of the best new talent in the LCK and LCS, with Berserker going to NA, Trigger doing well in LFL, and others like Mireu doing well on R7 in the LLA. So you can't exactly discount his potential.
Now the botlane? They went from Carzzy and Labrov the year before, with Carzzy looking bottom 3 at best and Labrov being a coinflip on his performances, to a power duo of Neon and Kaiser. Now, as a certified Misfits Fan until their departure, I am always hyped to see former bunnies doing well. Kaiser? Less so. I don't enjoy his play and I think he's either been massively overrated in his time in LEC or performing to a basic average level of what an LEC support should be. So I wasn't exactly excited after Kaiser spent 2021 clinging to Carzzy's legs dragging him back to elo hell, and 2022 ensuring UNFORG1VEN couldn't have too good a time. But, you know, it can always get better.
And honestly, who better to bring this roster together than the former Misfits coaching staff? A very strong, proven coaching staff that managed to take a team of middle of the pack players and almost propel them to worlds on unique and interesting strategies, and VTO.
Well, Winter began and Bo ended up kinda performing to the level expected. Photon did pretty damn well, and Perkz didn't look bad either. And despite a lot of what people now say, Neon actually didn't do too badly on uncomfortable picks, while kaiser utterly SPRINTED some laning phases and oft abandoned the botlane to push their topside ahead. Not the worst, but on picks like Caitlyn? Yeah not advisable. Neon also showed that he still had it in him with some amazing lategame carry performances on Varus and Zeri, but both of those were so broken at the start of this year that it's maybe easy to discount his performances.
The topside certainly had a time. Photon was performing pretty damn well most of the time, usually on Gnar, Gwen or an AP Gragas or two. He ended up being recognised as the best or at least one of the best junglers in the league. Bo was mostly resigned to Maokai, Vi and a very early Graves carry game, and usually went down in kills but, overall, not the worst. Perkz? Yeah not too bad either. An overall mixed bag that had some good azir games, some int tristana games, and a questionable leblanc and taliyah at the end.
But the overall cohesion of the team was sometimes called into question. Which, considering this was essentially one of the first LPL players to be brought into the LEC, and an unproven LCK player who had to learn english as well, AND deal with (what I presume was the reason for the vitality collapses before) a general manager who does something. I don't know, but to foreshadow, it's absolutely something to do with management that this team ends up THIS bad, and that most people who move on from Vitality end up so much better off.
Vitality ended the regular season with a 7-2 record, placing them in first place, with losses to a surprisingly strong underdog in SK Gaming, with Irrelevant stomping an Ornn Photon in the toplane and successfully transferring that lead throughout the map, and to KOI, the former Rogue, with a dominant Azir from Larssen, and a double ADC botlane stomping the Zeri-Yuumi of Vitality. But, this was ok, since they tied first alongside MAD Lions, holding the head to head, so taking the lead and their first ever 1st place regular season in LEC. Congrats Vitality! Now just carry that through to the all-new Group Stage!
...This is where this overview is gonna take a bit of a depressing turn.
Winter Group Stage is where a lot of Vitality's problems begin. They begin by picking Heretics to go up against. And that's completely understandable. Heretics had the disaster lanes of Evi and Ruby, a fairly weak botlane of Jackspectra and Mersa (sadly) and I'd argue The Western GOAT, Jankos, having a hell of a season with 3 training weights.
Unfortunatly, Vitality drop a game to Heretics. Now, not the end of the world, but this game hard exposed some things. Target and overwhelm the botlane, Neon and Kaiser can collapse, and Bo will usually try to salvage bot rather than focus topside. Photon can be beat by forcing him onto tanks, and don't give Bo something he can carry on. An embarassing Cait/Lux lane in game 2, a kindred carry in game 3 from Bo, plus a weak series from Photon showed that the "god" can bleed.
But ultimately, Vitality did win. Dropping a game does mean nothing, at the end of the day. You don't lose points or anything for that.
And then the KOI series happened.
KOI vs Vitality's Bo3 was a disasterclass. A clean 2-0 from Malrang's Xin Zhao, an utter failure of a Nidalee/Yone comp, and speaking of Comp, why did people give him Zeri? He's the pentakill guy now he gets pentakills, cmon. KOI cap off the series by annihilating Vitality, and qualifying for the playoffs. Not the end of the world. Vitality have one more chance, vs...
SK GAMING
The guys who beat them in regular season, the surging rookies looking promising and incredibly exciting going towards the playoffs. They lost a series too right? To... Koi...
Well.
Shit.
Vitality proceed to play a 40 minute game with maybe one of the most useless scalers ever, Elise, and Perkz' Shitty Goddamn Sylas, and then get stomped in under 25 minutes by The Sertussy on Ahri, and picking Karthus with no protection or scaling in jungle, vs Draven Vi. Oh God.
So that's Winter dead and gone now. Placing 5th overall, after winning the regular season, ain't exactly great. Fingers started being pointed, and at the end of the season, the team went forward with heads held high. So you dropped to 2 surging teams with high ceilings? What could go wrong next season?
Well... How about dropping your perfectly fine botlaner? Here's a twitter link for an announcement video that Neon is being benched for Upset!
...What???
A lot of people quickly jumped on board saying that Upset is a better botlaner than Neon, and should be a better fit for vitality's playstyle. He's goddamn Upset, right? The best botlaner EU's ever produced that never won his title?
That's what people say. They also like to neglect that fuckin EGO that Upset has. Maybe it's unpopular to say, but some of his comments about being the best to not win a title, or claiming He's too Good to Not Win A Title come off as
very egotistic to say the least.
But other than that, Vitality remained the same going into Spring. G2 won the split, MAD came 2nd overall, and Vitality have a bright future ahead of them! How can they NOT win the regular seaso-
6-3 they went 6-3. Which is still impressive! But the losses were to goddamn ASStralis (who also went 6-3 and looked a whole lot better without dajor but That's for tomorrow), G2 who just came off from winning a split, and BDS, who were really coming into their form in this meta. Not the worst, but some performances were… sketchy to say the least. Bo didn't look as good, Perkz was faltering in some matchups, Kaiser had some real fuckin int plays at times, and Upset did sometimes play for pure KDA. Photon still looked pretty damn good, playing carries more, and a game or two of malphite who just looked useless at times, but whatever. His Gwen looked good, he had a scary Jayce, a couple of Camilles and a Darius, for a bit of variety!
There's not as much to say other than the whole team... well... they looked tired. There was less laughing, less jokes, people seemed frustrated, and overall the atmosphere seemed slightly worse. Speaking as someone completely outside of that sphere, that's what I saw. Which could be completely wrong, but eh. Some things you do have to infer. Their losses often looked much worse than in winter, as well. Bo usually got the bad end of the stick in their losses, looking completely exposed as a fairly bad jungler, which wasn't always fair. Sometimes it was just a passive less explosive botlane which led to slower or longer games which no-one in vitality really wanted to kick start. Even in some wins, Perkz or Photon got hard exposed, while Kaiser kinda shit the bed or messed up engages in lane, leading to Upset usually just playing under turrets and begging for help from Bo. But you can whinge all you want, they still came out with a positive record, and a 4th place position, meaning they get to avoid the top 3 of Astralis, BDS and G2. And they made the best use of it!
Groups started out with a very clean 2-0 over MAD Lions, owing to some stellar Zeri Gaming from Upset, then Ahri from Perkz dominating MAD's scaling comps that shit the bed colossaly from Carzzy and Hyli playing Lucian/Nami very poorly all game both times.
Not much else to say, but they managed to repeat the effort vs a defeated and downtrodded Astralis, where 113 put on a disasterclass of being punished in jungle. That one series showed the Bo We Were Promised, and uhhh.... it never came back.
Seriously.
That was the last good performance by vitality, for basically the rest of the year (spoiler).
They qualify to playoffs and something flicks in their heads, and they look hollow, like absolute shells of humanity.
First series vs BDS has a kill-less game for Vitality, one of the worst Annie performances for a long time, and an absolute schlacking in the jungle for Bo, on a 1/9 sejuani.
There's nothing else to say than it was an absolute wipe, and Vitality get dropped to the lower bracket vs a loser's bracket MAD Lions who infamously were 1 nexus strike away from being dropped to 9th and missing groups, let alone playoffs.
And Vitality get a win off the back of a good tristana performance from Perkz, and get roundly whipped into shape by Nisqy and Elyoya, who look world class again if only briefly. An absolute disaster in the botlane for games 1, 3 and 4, Chasy proving that he was the better korean top all along, alongside some really damn good carzzy performancse led to Vitality absolutely losing everything.
And that's spring split done. Vitality completely figured out, losing to the top 2 teams one after another, and missing out on MSI. But the team not only made it to playoffs convincingly, but put on some good performances before then! Surely nothing will go wrong going forward?
Right?
Summer. If any Vitality fans do truly exist, they will shun this season with hatred and fear.
And going in, it didn't look much different to Spring, if anything people were more hopeful. Upset was apparently signed hastily after playoffs, meaning a general lack of time to sync up as a team and get on the same page, as well as less scrim time. Well this time, there's a whole ass international tournament in between, hosted near Berlin and a large number of huge players are gonna be in the EU, on soloq and ready to scrim.
Week 1 starts in an...
unfortunate manner. A quick loss to a humbled and utterly whipped MAD Lions after the infamous 1647 incident, with Bo getting utterly demolished and, of note, a very very distinct lack of harmony. Bo would often start objectives and go entirely MIA during the objective, basically just leashing for the enemy while leaving his lanes in a horrid state, and going for objectives basically against the wishes of the laners. Kaiser looked lost, Upset lost almost every lane, Perkz often got pushed in and left to fend solo vs ganks, and Photon got way too over eager and similarly lost lane, and threw games off of it.
Week 1 finishes with a middling win over a slumped SK with some truly disastrous jungle and support performances, and another loss to an up and coming Heretics with Vetheo.
Week 2 was worse. A 0-3 week, losing to G2 with another jungle disasterclass, losing to Astralis who outscrapped Vitality to death, and Fnatic who utterly shitstomped Bo with a pocket Amumu.
You might notice a recurring pattern of Bo being the most focused and often lost person on this roster. Management thought so too, so they brought up their 17 year old LFL jungler Daglas, who was just ok. A carry focused player who often took risky fights against most conventional wisdom. AKA A mini Bo. Oh God.
Week 3 started Daglas' LEC journey, in an absolute snoozer vs Koi where Photon was the only human logged on and Daglas got put on Maokai duty, where they lost, and then on Day 2, they needed the win. Desperately. Without this win, they're eliminated from groups, and it's vs a slumping BDS. This game was fought with blood, sweat, tears, and teeth. A constant back and forth between 2 teams fighting for last chances in the season, and it all comes down to one teamfight. I implore you, if you haven't to watch the final few minutes of this game. It is utterly heartbreakingly close. And BDS just sweep one fight and walk in a wave to end the game. That's it. That's Vitality's season, basically. One more game vs Excel looks just as lifeless as ever, and they're gone. Vitality's out, the superteam has failed again.
Well, they can qualify for season finals on a technicality but it's so slim that I doubt they will. Not that I, or any other viewer would want to. They look utterly hopeless and depressed, and I cannot wait to see how badly this ends.
Vitality's season was one of tragedy. Few teams shoot for the stars so often, and fall so hard and so short of their expectations. Let's see if they do it again next year, shall we?
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We are so excited to announce that Craig Miller, the original Director of Fan Relations at Lucasfilm, is joining us for LegendsCon! In his role at LFL, he created and ran the Official Star Wars Fan Club, and wrote almost all of the articles for the first two years of Bantha Tracks. He also started the process of archiving Star Wars fanzines, many of which now reside in the University of Iowa Fanzine Archives as part of the Organization for Transformative Works' Fan Culture Preservation Project.
Craig will be joining us to share his stories from the early days of the franchise and fandom. His book, Star Wars Memories, will also be available for sale.
Join us for LegendsCon September 9th-10th in Burbank, CA! Buy tickets now on Eventbrite, and help us bring you a convention that is truly legendary by donating to our Kickstarter campaign before June 26th!
LegendsCon is a fan-run convention celebrating the original Expanded Universe books, comics, games, and other media that are now known as Legends. We seek to create an event that brings together fans in an environment that fosters positivity and inclusivity while we celebrate our love of Legends material. Our growing guest list includes Randy Stradley, Matthew Stover, Corinna Bechko, Sean Stewart, Barbara Hambly, Abel Peña and Craig Miller. We are an unofficial community organized event, which is not sponsored, run by, or affiliated with Lucasfilm Ltd. All event proceeds will go to The Peter Mayhew Foundation.
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Thinking about the people Louis wrote songs with for Faith In The Future, their affiliation with BMG, the timing of Louis signing with BMG and the timing of their songwriting sessions. Felix Howard, A&R at BMG, once signed Calvin Harris, James McMorrow, Hurts, Lewis Capaldi. (Hurts is also managed by seven7management).
Louis wrote songs in fall 2020, prior to signing with BMG —i.e. in October 2020. Did signing with BMG influence him not to include Copy and Change on his album?
Louis’ affiliation with BMG was reported May 2021. He left Syco July 2020.
So between July 2020 and May 2021, there were ten months where Louis was presumably looking for a new label. He was writing songs prior to signing, but not with BMG’s roster of artists. He tweeted about writing with Jamie Hartman in October 2020; none of those songs made it to the new album. The only carry-over from Walls is Dave Gibson.
Once Louis signed with the new label, the songwriting accelerated. My guess is that Louis had signed with BMG as of December 2020, and he started contacting people to work with. Their time table was to release FITF after LTWT22, using LTWT22 sort of as a gauge for the vision and sound of FITF. It would already be nearly two years after signing with BMG, and the label would want an album by this time.
The songwriting for FITF went into hyperdrive late summer to winter of 2021, but the album would not be finished until midway through LTWT22. Felix Howard and other BMG people being at Louis’ concerts in USA, Latam, and Europe makes sense. They were trying to see how his audience responds to his live shows. Their conclusion: the audience is fervent but young, and not too smart. But we (or our parents) have deep pockets.
Unfortunately, BMG had to wait for the LTWT22/ Walls tour because Louis owed the tour as a contractual obligation to Sony. Therefore BMG could not promote the tour. However, they could use the tour to study Louis’ fandom. BMG’s conclusion was that Louis’ fandom skews heavily toward 1D nostalgia and Larry. The promo, and Louis’ talking points, reflect this conclusion.
Louis’ soundbite that he decided to work with “artists rather than professional songwriters this time” may be part of BMG’s marketing strategy/ vision. He was “more authentic” now, didn’t want to chase charts and numbers, because BMG had already decided to focus on the sizable 1D fandom.
Now, a little discussion about the timing of the leaks that included an early production of Lucky Again (presumably recorded late summer, 2021), All Along, and The Way I Do, the latter two being songs he probably wrote while under Syco (prior to July 2020) although I’m not sure about that. Lyrics from these leaks were sent to Tumblr Larries in April 2022, and the audio files were also sent to Twitter Larries, in August 2022. The target was Larries— Louis’ biggest fandom. They also knew that fandom would reliably spread the leaks.
FITF had already been mastered and printed by August 2022, so what was the point of leaking these tracks? Perhaps to gauge how fandom would react to the storyline of the album, and the sound (also none of these leaks, including The Greatest, were the final versions, so fans would still buy the final album).
Anyway… these are some of my thoughts about the timeline and the promo talking points.
Addendum re: @berlinini’s tags about Live From London in Dec 2020. I think Louis wanted to do something to keep the tour fresh and alive (because nothing looked good at that point), and the LFL concert might have been an audition for BMG. It proved that Louis could draw a huge, international, paying audience, and that on his own (without Sony), Louis still had access to professionals with very high standards. In fact, the technicians responsible for LFL are still the same crew that travels with Louis on tour. BMG were impressed.
VEEPS, which aired LFL, is still supportive of Louis. Even though VEEPS has been sold to Live Nation, its former directors, the Madden brothers, are still onboard with promoting Louis. They now own Alt Press, which put Louis on its cover to promote FITF, and did a favorable review of his concert.
After Louis signed with BMG, his music videos and promo shots were done with BMG-affiliated directors and photographers (Edward Cooke etc.). Charlie Lightening is still a friend and still around, but remember that Sony initially contacted Charlie for We Made It mv.
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If Lana’s albums were deluxe...
The bonus tracks should be (on albums that aren’t already deluxe):
Paradise
Life Is Beautiful - it matches the energy of Bel Air (dreamy, whimsical, optimistic)
Angels Forever Forever Angels - as Ride opens the album, AFFA could close it to make them perfect bookends that come full circle
Honeymoon
Wayamaya - a mature, slower version could work with more complex production
Lust For Life
Yes To Heaven - it’s dreamy and witchy
Serene Queen - it has the vibe of In My Feelings but could work in the sound of LFL (a darker, bleaker chorus instrumental)
Blue Banisters
Wild One - it’s got the sound for it
Fine China - this is a simple piano track which, with different production (more acoustic) may fit the sad yet not devastated feel of BB songs
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TAEYANG - ‘Shoong! (feat. LISA of BLACKPINK)’ PERFORMANCE VIDEO
The Thai singer of the YG Entertainment K-Pop supergroup is slated to be featured on the EP Down to Earth with this track. “Shoong!” takes notes from the hip-hop genre, while also featuring an R&B trap beat. The music video for “Shoong!” sees Taeyang and Lisa performing an intricate
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The Scavenger and her Prince
read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/VjZOoh6
by ReyloScribbles
Ben Solo died on Exegol… but the Force wasn’t quite finished with him yet. A short while after the events of TRoS, Rey tracks him down in the World Between Worlds and brings him back to the living galaxy. Now, she finally has the chance to get to know her soulmate in the Force and cavort around the galaxy with him… the belonging she’d always wanted.
A series of connected stories following Rey’s journey to bring Ben Solo back and what comes afterward: adventures, fluff, finally getting to really know each other, and implied smut because I can’t write that shit well. (Or, a post-TRoS series that I’d beg LFL to take because I want to see this canon so badly)
Words: 7336, Chapters: 1/6, Language: English
Fandoms: Star Wars Sequel Trilogy, Star Wars - All Media Types
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Categories: F/M
Characters: Rey (Star Wars), Ben Solo, Ben Solo | Kylo Ren, Finn (Star Wars), Rose Tico, Poe Dameron, BB-8 (Star Wars), R2-D2 (Star Wars)
Relationships: Rey/Ben Solo, Rey/Ben Solo | Kylo Ren, Rey & Ben Solo, Rey & Ben Solo | Kylo Ren, Kylo Ren/Rey
Additional Tags: Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Fix-It, Post-Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, The Rise of Skywalker's ending hurt and here's how I cope, Happily Ever After, fluff with some plot, Fluff, POV Rey (Star Wars), Slight angst at the start but then there's none because these two deserve some PEACE, Cuddling & Snuggling, fluff and implied smut, because I can't write that well but use your imagination, These Two Need to Get Down, And they shall, Ben Solo Lives, Redeemed Ben Solo, Soft Ben Solo, Devoted Rey/Ben Solo | Kylo Ren, Shy Ben Solo (at first), Ben Solo is Han's son so he has sass, Sassy BB-8 (Star Wars), no betas we die like men, Canon-Typical Violence
read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/VjZOoh6
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Are you okay? Are you good? I say this with the upmost love but do mentally stable people write masterpieces like yours?
Great artists don’t have the best track records on happy lives but I sincerely hope you stand within the exceptions
Although people might not believe it, I have had a very happy life so far and have pretty good mental health HAJGKDHDJK. I have to do a lot of research to be respectful and accurate because I don't relate to lfls in the way others can.
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extremely fond of this beepy lil computer like track lfls has been using in the backgrounds. it does sound like a videogame ost and its very charming
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Scenario- a certain LFLS one- buuuut what if Blaise instead ended up killing Sebastian out of self defense?
Blaise grumbled as he sat in his cell, not even touching the food that had been brought to him. He didn't care if he was in jail. He didn't care if everyone thought Sebastian was the poor, unfortunate victim.
One day, they'd find his tracks.
One day, they'd notice something is wrong.
If Justine was smart, she'd figure out the thread that led to what Sebastian truly was. Sebastian could whine all he wanted.
He couldn't stop Justine from eventually finding proof that that kid was a monster.
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Unpopular Opinions about Lana Del Rey music
The Good Life belongs in Ultraviolence and not in Honeymoon
STLALT (alongside with Chelsea Hotel N.2, Summer Wine & The Good Life) should have been released officially
I hope French Restaurant gets reworked and released
Queen of Hearts it’s horrible (and probably Don’t Stop too)
Yes to heaven needs to be in the next album (also I hope that the BB version leak alongside COTCC untagged version & UV final and Honeymoon final)
If I Die Young should have made it into the album (Roses Bloom For You too)
TIWMUG demo is fits better in the album
I don’t like DLMBM
The stem edit of Tomorrow is better than album version
TNBAR is the worst track on NFR! (the bridge is the only thing I like)
Prisioner is underrated and Stargirl is overrated
I don’t understand why she didn’t release American Classics & Standards (or Pacific Blue whatever the hell is the name)
Same shit with the unreleased album
Black Beauty Remix EP is highly underrated and needs to be in streaming services
Wild One needs to be in LDR10 (also I hope the Honeymoon and BB versions gets leaked)
Why did Spotify took the LA poem? It was unnecessary and nonsense
Sirens is beautiful, but Birds of a Feather ruins the album ending with the exaggerated auto tune
AKA deserves to be remastered and re-released with bonus tracks
Born to Die deserved a 10th anniversary edition with unreleased bonus tracks
LDR fan edits are diamonds bathed in gold
Hey Blue Baby & IMBSFFSH deserve studio versions
Same with Heart-shaped Box & Scarborough Fair
IYLDWM deserves a music video
Buddy Rendezvous is one of Lana’s greatest covers alongside The Other Woman & For Free
Guns and Roses is criminally underrated like please give this song more love
Brooklyn Baby is mid
Oficial remixes are trash (except Clams Casino ones, Bloodpop and Avener of LFL)
We deserve the Axl studio version, really is one of her best songs ever!
Wonder how Love Song demos are 🧐
Laptop recordings are priceless and timeless
Yes to heaven may have a Lust For Life version and will probably be one of the best versions of the song (alongside honeymoon demo version & COTCC version)
We need all the songs from the scrapped album with the last shadow puppets (or at least the tracklist)
Chemtrails is underrated af (also blonde Lana should have last longer)
If she is not giving us an album full of covers, at least i hope she make it an EP
Freak, God knows & The Blackest day demos are better than album versions
Need the Mark Ronson version of Terrence Loves You
White Mustang way too short like wtf
Get free original demo was not deleted there’s a snippet in YouTube (I think is real tho)
Dance Till We Die it’s like the Guns and Roses from COTCC, way to underrated
Wanna know if Yosemite was reworked for the album or if she used the same version meant for LFL
Thunder demo is better than Thunder album version (Also I need the other 3 mixes of the song)
Why she doesn’t have a live album, like wtf
Big Eyes & I Can fly needs to be released as singles
Wait for life should have make it into UV
The price for which Crazy For You is being sold is insane (ironically)
That’s all (for now)
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